On Thursday 23rd July Brother Andy Melvin passed away from bronchopneumonia in Whipps Cross Hospital.
Andy was a fantastic guy, ready to help everyone and anyone. He was a long serving member of the RMT and an activist from day one.
Andy started out on the buses before joining TfL and becoming a Supervisor in the Liverpool Street Travel Information Centre.
Support Kevin
Ballot papers have now gone out with regard to Kevin Dobinson’s sacking. As you know Kevin was sacked for an aggravated SPAD that he owned up to. Drivers on the line were shocked at the severity of Kevin’s punishment, most thinking that at worse Kevin would have been dipped for what he did. This has led to rumours that Kevin’s past record most have been a factor in his sacking. This is not so. Kevin has never had an aggravated SPAD before, or indeed any other serious safety incident.
Press release from the United Campaign Against Police Violence
United Campaign Against Police Violence urges Crown Prosecution Service to prosecute officer involved
The United Campaign Against Police Violence (UCAPV) welcomes the step forward in the investigation into the death of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson. As the Independent Police Complaints Commission passes its files on the investigation into the police officer seen to strike Ian Tomlinson to the Crown Prosecution Service, we hope that this case will finally come to court and that justice is done.
Catch up with whats happening in the region, regarding pay, pensions and jobs.. items that affect everyone including our members in the Neasden Branch.
RMT's London Transport Regional Council has submitted the following two items for inclusion on the agenda of either the union's Council of Executives or its National Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgender Advisory Committee, whichever the General Secretary considers appropriate:
1. Maximum number of delegates to LGBT Conference
I am writing regarding the latest position in negotiations with LUL and TfL over pay, the 'jobs for life' deal and bullying of our members.
Talks at ACAS have broken down because management have refused to discuss pay and bullying. The 'jobs for life' deal has been discussed but despite this deal being signed off by Gordon Brown and guaranteed by John Prescott management are refusing point blank to abide by it.
We have had another Goebbels-like piece of propaganda in senior management's 'Heads Up' communiqué stating that there are now only 70 jobs at risk and there were over 250 vacancies. If this were true then management could easily guarantee everyone at least one alternative job: why then are they not prepared to do this?
Click '1 attachment' / file name to download the General Secretary's report to this year's RMT Annual General Meeting.
TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber has sent the following letter to Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State at the Department of Energy and Climate Change ...
Dear Ed
Vestas Wind Systems
As you are aware, the TUC shares your absolute commitment to tackle climate change, including through the development of a low carbon industrial strategy with quality green jobs and skills at its heart.
When Chattel enslavement ended - not in 1807 as some would like us to believe but in 1838 - it was simply replaced by bonded enslavement whereby these same ‘freed’ Afrikans were forced to work on the very same plantation from which they had been ‘freed’.
Worst still, the people who had for so many years been exploiting, brutalising, raping and murdering them were compensated for these crimes, by the very same government who wanted to claim credit for their freedom.
No Afrikan has ever been compensated!
